2024-2031年全球塑胶母粒市场

Plastic Masterbatches Market, Global, 2024-2031

出版日期: 2025年07月09日 | 出版商:

Frost & Sullivan | 英文 44 Pages | 商品交期: 最快1-2个工作天内

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简介目录

永续、多功能、高价值母粒解决方案的开发带来新的成长机会

母粒市场包括颜色、添加剂、白色、黑色和填充物部分，并分为两个最终产品组：热塑性塑胶和热固性塑胶。

製造商使用母粒更有效地将颜料和添加剂添加到聚合物树脂和弹性体中。这些化合物透过增强分散性来提高产品的均匀性和製程稳定性。它们还不含危险化学品，因此处理起来更安全。母粒以无尘颗粒的母粒供应，可保持生产区域清洁，减少交叉污染，并加快产品转换速度。因此，与传统的颜料和添加剂相比，包装、农业、纺织和医疗保健等行业越来越青睐母粒。

2024年，添加剂和母粒占据全球市场占有率的首位（无论在价值或数量上），预计在预测期内仍将保持领先地位。添加剂母粒可改善塑胶的性能，而母粒则可增强聚合物的多功能性，使製造商能够满足多样化的最终用途需求。

预计到2024年，热塑性塑胶（包括热塑性聚合物和弹性体）将占据全球母粒消费量的最大份额。製造商利用母粒来获得一致的着色效果并增强基础树脂的性能。相较之下，热固性产品（例如合成橡胶和热固性树脂）使用的母粒较少，预计这一趋势将持续下去。这些领域的最终用户倾向于选择成本较低的粉末和液体颜料及添加剂，而不是固体和液体母粒。

发展中国家，尤其是亚太地区和中东及非洲地区，中产阶级人口和家庭收入正在快速成长。这种转变推动了商品化热塑性产品的可自由支配支出的增加。随着这些地区最终产品开发的不断扩展，母粒的无尘处理和多功能性优势正在推动其应用。

同时，北美和欧洲的成熟市场优先考虑高性能、永续的材料，领先的製造商提供先进的母粒，以确保出色的色彩一致性、均匀的添加剂分散、无尘加工、可回收性以及与各种载体树脂的兼容性。

成长指标
母粒市场概况与范围
母粒製造工艺
成长动力
成长动力分析
成长抑制因素
成长抑制因素分析
新产品开发
热塑性塑胶的驱动因素和限制因素图形摘要
驱动因素与限制因素的图形摘要：热固性树脂
收益和销售预测
收益和出货量预测分析
母粒市场价格趋势及预测
价格趋势及预测分析
各地区收益预测
各地区销售预测
按地区分類的收益和销售预测分析
按用途细分的数量和收益
母粒市场价值链
竞争环境

成长引擎：热塑性塑料

热塑性母粒市场：细分特征与概述
收益和销售预测
预测分析
按产品分類的收益预测
各产品出货量预测
针对特定产品的预测分析

生长发生器：热固性树脂

热固性树脂母粒市场：细分特征和概述
收益和销售预测
预测分析
按产品分類的收益预测
各产品出货量预测
针对特定产品的预测分析

成长机会宇宙

成长机会1：注重质量
成长机会二：促进永续性
成长机会三：创新合作

附录与后续步骤

成长机会的益处和影响
后续步骤Next steps
材料清单
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简介目录

Product Code: PFR8-86

Development of Sustainable, Multifunctional, and Value-added Masterbatch Solutions Is Driving New Growth Opportunities

The masterbatches market includes color, additive, white, black, and filler segments. It also comprises 2 end-product families: thermoplastics and thermosets.

Manufacturers use masterbatches to incorporate pigments and additives into polymer resins and elastomers more efficiently. These compounds improve product uniformity and process stability by enhancing dispersion. They also encapsulate hazardous chemicals, making handling safer. Supplied in dust-free pellet form, masterbatches keep production areas cleaner, reduce cross-contamination, and speed up product changeovers. As a result, industries such as packaging, agriculture, textiles, and medical increasingly prefer masterbatches over conventional pigments and additives.

In 2024, additive and color masterbatches accounted for the largest global market shares by both value and volume. They are likely to maintain this lead during the forecast period. Additive masterbatches enhance plastic performance, while color masterbatches increase polymer versatility, allowing manufacturers to meet diverse end-use requirements.

Thermoplastics-including thermoplastic polymers and elastomers-represented the largest share of global masterbatch consumption in 2024. Manufacturers rely on them for consistent color addition and performance enhancement of base resins. By contrast, thermoset-based products, such as synthetic rubbers and thermoset resins, showed lower masterbatch usage-a trend that is expected to persist. End-users in these segments often choose powdered or liquid pigments and additives, which offer lower costs than solid or liquid masterbatches.

Developing countries, particularly in APAC and MEASA, have witnessed a sharp rise in middle-class populations and household incomes. This shift has increased discretionary spending on commoditized thermoplastic products. The dust-free handling and multifunctional benefits of masterbatches are driving their adoption as end-product development expands in these regions.

Meanwhile, mature markets in North America and Europe are prioritizing high-performance and sustainable materials. Leading producers are offering advanced masterbatches that ensure superior color consistency, uniform additive dispersion, dust-free processing, recyclability, and compatibility with various carrier resins.

The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on the Plastic Masterbatches Industry

Competitive Intensity

Why:
By definition, masterbatches provide plastic processors with a method for incorporating required pigments and additives into compounds. However, alternative routes to market exist that do not rely on masterbatches, keeping competitive intensity high.
Companies offering substitute forms continually evolve their products, requiring masterbatch specialists to stay vigilant and responsive to these developments.
Frost Perspective:
Although masterbatches offer customers significant convenience, they often cost more than in-house compounding. As a result, cost-conscious customers pose one of the biggest risks to masterbatch suppliers.
Technical innovations in alternative solutions also present a threat-particularly those that enhance convenience and erode the competitive edge of masterbatches, such as liquid colors and additives.

Industry Convergence

Why:
Relatively few masterbatch suppliers remain "pure-play," as many also operate in other tiers of the plastics value chain.
Companies often pursue vertical integration as a key advantage in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity. For example, LyondellBasell acquired A. Schulman in 2018, and PolyOne acquired Clariant Masterbatches in 2020 to form Avient-adding masterbatch capabilities to broader portfolios.
Since then, M&A activity in the industry has focused heavily on acquiring regional and local players to expand geographic reach.
Frost Perspective:
Mergers, acquisitions, and strategic collaborations-such as Sukano's acquisition of KAYS Kft. and the Hubron-Graphenest alliance-are intensifying competition and accelerating market consolidation in the masterbatch industry.
While these moves strengthen larger players, they create pressure on smaller manufacturers, leading to an uneven market share and differentiation landscape.

Transformative Mega Trends

Why:
As in other markets, environmental sustainability is taking center stage in the plastics industry.
Regulatory bodies are pushing for higher recycled content through circular economy mandates, driving manufacturers to adapt their formulations by incorporating more post-consumer resin (PCR).
Frost Perspective:
Stricter plastic waste regulations and the growing focus on the circular economy pose a significant risk to masterbatch manufacturers.
As recycled plastics gain traction, demand for new masterbatches declines because recycled materials often already contain additives and colors.

Research Scope

Masterbatches Market Overview and Scope
Segmentation

Strategic Imperatives

Why Is It Increasingly Difficult to Grow?
The Strategic Imperative 8
The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on the Plastic Masterbatches Industry
Growth Opportunities Fuel the Growth Pipeline Engine